Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Clichés such as ‘We’ve always done it this way’ stem from a historical resistance to change.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2018

Compliance became the norm, as did cutthroat competition. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.”. ? Therefore, over time, “make money” became the company’s informal mantra. Over time, company culture changed too.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You pushed, they resisted. You pushed harder, they resisted more. People don’t resist change; they resist being changed. So you expect compliance without delay. The best you’re likely to achieve is compliance. Did you ever try to change someone, but they were unwilling to do so? Frustrating. you wondered.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

Promises made by your technology partner, such as increased analytics capabilities and improved compliance with regulators, are probably at the top of your mind. A Resistant Culture. This kind of resistance is possible across different levels of the enterprise, from upper management to rank-and-file banking staff.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The holiday spirit is a contagious one and when it takes over the workplace, it becomes important to also spare a moment for holiday compliance and safety amidst all the planning. If you’re starting your holiday planning early, let’s look at some holiday compliance and safety strategies to keep your employees safe and satisfied.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 11, 2020

“By using an algorithm, the process is more objective and resistant to biases, which ensures compliance,” the authors say. The report highlights the level of bias that still exists in the small business loan process, which the authors believe could be overcome by greater use of automation.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2016

Leaders also know that change can create resistance. They recognize the resistance surfacing when they hear employees speaking of the cultural change effort as something that will pass with time–if they wait long enough it will go away. And they recognize resistance that may be borne in part out of a “fear of the unknown.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Designing broad involvement into the strategy development and execution process will rapidly increase the quality of your strategy, build broad ownership and commitment, reduce resistance, mitigate execution risks and accelerate results. Any resistance to change would simply be overcome with rules, policies and managers to force compliance.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2013

Mentors agree that you can rely on a certain level of resistance when it comes to identifying development opportunities. Resistance is prevalent when the recommended areas of development are linked to “soft skills”. However, compliance without a development mandate can translate into minimal improvement. Here’s what they said.

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LDRLB

JUNE 17, 2013

When the Italian government announced that all villages with fewer than 1000 residents would be forced to merge with nearby villages to save money, they expected compliance. Mayor Luca Sellari did not see compliance as necessary. It can resist acceptance – the enemy of transcendent adaptability.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Cooperation Is Better Than Compliance. Actually it’s not so difficult to measure, and yet, I still get resistance about the importance of this ability. The more I understood their jobs, their routines, and their responsibilities, the more likely I would make intelligent requests of them. This would make us all successful at our jobs.

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General Leadership

MARCH 26, 2014

Coercion and compliance were the norm. Don’t compromise your ideals or minimize your influence by falling prey to taking the path of least resistance. To the Spartans, however, citizenry and all its rights, liberties, and opportunities were extended only to certain classes. Power was the possession of the privileged.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Other situations include data loss and compliance consequences. Compliance Audit. As part of your audit, you need to make sure that your organization is in compliance with various privacy and data laws. What would the consequences and the costs be to your organization? That could result in major fines for your organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 21, 2016

Though Newton's third law of physics may dictate that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when it comes to the alteration of employee behaviors in the workplace, the reactions and resistance can often be disproportionately negative. Don't expect it to be the Holy Grail and immediately demand total compliance.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Most organizations, teams, schools, and families today still operate from a model of “command and control,” focusing on hierarchies and compliance from people. A believer in limited government, he pushed presidential power to its limits to combat a crippling depression, suppress labor unrest, and resist the forces of American imperialism.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2013

The spectrum relates to the freedom the tactic leaves the person being influenced to decide either to yield or to resist the influence attempt: Hard tactics give individuals less freedom than soft tactics. They are perceived as more forceful and push the person to comply versus support.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JULY 18, 2023

Do yourself a favor and resist the temptation to assume this is goody-goody pablum. Many people in leadership positions struggle with the age-old compliance versus commitment conundrum. By its very nature, there’s no need to force people into compliance. Don’t believe everything you think.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

You get resistance or compliance at best. Key activities and results are tracked, reported, evaluated, and it has an impact on variable compensation. If these 5 things are not happening, then you’ll hear them say things like “just keep your head down and this too shall pass”.

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ReImagine Work

APRIL 16, 2015

Cooperation is better than compliance. Actually it’s not so difficult to determine, and yet, I still get resistance about the importance of this ability. The more I understood their jobs, their routines, and their responsibilities, the more likely I would make intelligent requests of them. This would make us all successful at our jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

"Go to LinkedIn and do a search for people currently employed by your enterprise," says social compliance strategist and financial industry veteran Mike Langford. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The good news is that implementing an effective social media compliance process isn't rocket science.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

It starts out rather peaceful; but as cows are steered from the open pasture into small holding pens and then forced to go up a loading chute and onto the truck, it requires low voltage electric prods to convert their resistance into compliance. What does this cattle herding metaphor have to do with you?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 9, 2015

We have compliance issues. We all have compliance issues, admitted or not. We all resist being told how to behave, even when it’s for our own good or we know our failure to comply will hurt someone. Being good over here does not excuse being not so good over there.

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leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Not only will this move provide you with valuable input, but it also greatens your chances of employee compliance. The best way to receive employee resistance is to present something as the end-all-be-all way of doing things. Test The Waters.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A user-friendly platform reduces the learning curve and minimizes resistance, encouraging active engagement from the get-go. HR Onboarding platform WorkBright streamlines the onboarding process to help employers maintain compliance and maximize efficiency and ease.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

It is also a natural phenomenon that people find it challenging to accept the changes, so they resist it mostly. Provides proper support to business compliance initiatives, including ISO 9000 and Six Sigma. It gets facilitated by Business Process modeling by; ? Fastest solutions to any business concerns in the most elegant way. ?

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Thus, leaders often see risk management as a compliance function or, worse yet, as an obstacle to making bold decisions. ” -Sun Tzu. What differences do you note between the most successful organizations versus the mediocre?

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

I couldn’t resist myself thinking about simplicity in a business setting and wondering, “ how many leaders can really do this? Leaders frame complex strategies, use heavy weight terminologies to describe their plans, set up complex processes and use a lot of jargons when communicating for a change. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Because change is hard and most of the times, we are resistant to change. Many people I know want to quit smoking. We have a lot of “wishes” on improvement, but we often fail to take some real actions. Not only because it pulls us out of our comfort zone, but also because when we initiate a change, we don’t see the end results very clearly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This system is highly resistant to change, as anyone who as ever tried to “impose” change on a system knows. These champions can do so because they are earnestly involved in the change, talking about it around the real work — not through hierarchical chains of command (which tends to drive compliance, if anything).

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Yet, my teacher persisted and encouraged me to find a way to make “lemonade out of lemons”.

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QAspire

JULY 4, 2010

Resist conducting unscheduled meetings when they are not needed. This is the final part of this series which is compiled to form a handy and portable summary “ 25 Things Managers & Leaders Should NEVER Do ” ( Download PDF ) If you are a supervisor, manager or a leader at any level, you should NEVER: Conduct long and unscheduled meetings.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 31, 2015

Again, it’s our brain’s tendency to find that path of least resistance; of assuaging any uncertainty we may have to grapple with by accepting only those narratives or assumptions that serve to reinforce how we choose to view our leadership and ourselves.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Of course, engineering design and test should be held accountable, but more sophisticated data-driven analytics makes the cost-driven, compliance-oriented supply chain employee culpable, as well.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Why We Resist Change. A child can see the difference between commitment and compliance. Even when I’ve gotten the greatest advance build-up as someone who can help people change for the better, I still meet resistance. Our positive beliefs about ourselves help us become successful. They have a high need for self-determination.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 14, 2011

This needs to be pointed out to them, and may be met with some resistance, so handle it delicately and openly. Another think to consider is that the worker will be responsible for their own self employment tax on this income, since no tax is withheld. This is a plus for you, but may seem as a drawback to them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Seek out—don’t avoid – the staff responsible for legal, regulatory, and compliance within your organization. Talk to your legal, regulatory, and compliance colleagues early, well before your innovation is ready. Sometimes, however, resistance is strong. That’s right. That’s a big mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

So when do you demand compliance, and when do you just let things go? The more people inconvenienced, the greater the compulsion to require compliance with your cultural norms. If you are, you might choose to simply demand compliance. You may face resistance, the third factor to consider. Are you in charge?

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